Live music can afford novel, transformative aesthetic encounters for individual audience members. The concert hall is also a site of shared experience and atmosphere. Recent concert research has involved collaborative, exploratory approaches to understanding audience experience and has taken a particular interest in attentional dynamics, affective resonances, and embodied engagement. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods to explore shared and idiosyncratic patterns of aesthetic interaction in the concert hall offers rich, up-close insight into dynamic aspects of concert listening.
This talk provides a critical overview of some recent interdisciplinary interactions between philosophy, musicology, and music psychology in concert research. It charts published and ongoing work that 1) applies conceptual resources from phenomenology, ecological psychology, and enactivism in the interpretation of audience movement data; 2) involves extensive qualitative, phenomenological investigation, and; 3) demonstrates exploratory analysis combining qualitative and physiological data sets and music analysis.
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By: Reny Baykova
Last updated: Monday, 3 November 2025
